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That little distraction of a bar room brawl between the Hunters and the Good (capital G so you understand it's about us Mages), has not distracted us from our common enemy.
… may think we have dropped the ball, turned our backs, forgiven them for past indiscretions.
Which is why, while I mourn the loss of a Great Mage blogger and rejoice at his tardy switch to fiction.
I mean, who can not love a category list like this:
I do not forget that which the Warlocks have forged. In fact, inspired by Rip's words such as:
Saresa. In honour of warlocks such as yourself, every six months I level one to twenty and then delete it whilst cackling.
Megan. I'd let you corpse camp me any day. If you know what I mean. And I mean SEX.
Hang on, that last one doesn't quite fit what I am really trying to say… but I am inspired to queue on the corpse pile.
I second Rip's thoughts on Jong as well… I mean any man with the audacity to tame BigBearButt for his alt Hunter is a god among gods. (and if you missed Jong's temp post… well… maybe it's time you subscribed to his secret feed)
Anyway.. back on topic, I to have been tardy in revealing the other entries in the Save a Soul Today competition I was running.
There is a kind of strange irony in these last two entries.. if you recall, I was calling upon Mages (primarily) to either CC and screenshot a Warlock, or describe a 10 step rehabilitation program for the poor lost souls (no not the stones, the evil keepers of the stones).
The irony is, that these two entries are from.. (more…)


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Mounting rights abuses and political disengagement could push more young people towards militancy in Indian-administered Kashmir, residents warn, following some of the deadliest violence the troubled region has seen in a decade.
Last year was Kashmir's deadliest since 2008 and the bloodshed has worsened since.
The Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a local rights group, says more than 586 people were killed in 2018, including militants, Indian security forces, and 160 civilians. The Indian government puts the civilian death toll at 37. This year is already threatening to surpass the last: the rights group recorded 162 total deaths from January until March.
The Himalayan territory spanning India and Pakistan is claimed by both entirely and has brought the nuclear-armed nations to open conflict several times since independence from Britain in 1947. Violence in Kashmir has left at least 40,000 dead since a separatist insurgency against Indian rule ignited in 1989. The Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the Kashmir valley, is the country's only Muslim-majority state.
Local rights advocates fear a growing humanitarian crisis fed by years of conflict and unchecked human rights abuses.
"International NGOs are very restricted when it comes to accessing Kashmir, but the truth needs to be told," said Khurram Parvez, JKCCS's co-ordinator. "They don't need to wait to be invited; they can speak out now."
Violence this year is fuelled by a rare suicide bombing in February that killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in the southern town of Pulwama. The attack, claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, put Kashmir back under an international spotlight. India blamed Pakistan for allegedly supporting Kashmir militants and the two countries exchanged airstrikes. The parents of the 22-year-old suicide bomber, Adil Ahmad Dar, told local journalists he may have been driven to militancy after being assaulted by police in street protests, which have frequently erupted in recent years.
Some armed groups in Kashmir demand accession to Pakistan; others advocate complete independence for the territory. India has cracked down on both militancy and civilian protests, which ignited with the July 2016 killing of Burhan Wani, the popular commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, by Indian security forces.
Mohammad Ashraf Wani, partially blinded by pellet-gun fire, says there is constant tension between security forces and civilians.
For Mohammad Ashraf Wani, there is no doubt that India's controversial policing policy is counterproductive and instilling a fearlessness in Kashmir's youth.
In 2016, he was hit by a hail of pellets from an officer's pump-action shotgun and collapsed in a pool of blood. Despite multiple surgeries, Wani lost all sight in his right eye and has partial vision in his left.
Shotgun pellets have been used as a crowd control method in Kashmir since 2010 - the only Indian state in which they are deployed. More than 6,221 people received pellet gun injuries in the seven months following the July 2016 unrest, according to the Jammu and Kashmir government.
"Anyone here who sees their brother, sister, father, or mother in some ways abused by the state machinery creates a situation where the youth are so fed up that they will take to the streets and won't care whether it's a pellet that hits them or a bullet," said Mohammad, who now leads a lobby group for pellet gun victims. "India and Pakistan have turned Kashmir into a graveyard."
Kashmir's increasing violence was the backdrop for India's recent elections, which saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to power in results announced 23 May. Preliminary data shows that Jammu and Kashmir recorded a turnout of only 29 percent compared to a nationwide average of 67 percent. Hundreds of polling stations recorded no voters at all.
In downtown Srinagar's bustling Lal Chowk, or Red Square, Indian soldiers peer out of barbed wire-strewn sentry posts and patrol the streets gripping automatic rifles. At his nearby office, Parvez of JKCCS told The New Humanitarian that mounting claims of police brutality are a major reason for Kashmiris' disengagement from politics and a rise in militancy.
Parvez, who has received death threats for his work and was detained for two and half months in 2016 after attempting to travel to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said the actions of the suicide bomber in the February Pulwama attack - Kashmir's first suicide car bombing in nearly two decades - should be a warning sign.
Local rights advocate Khurram Parvez accuses the international community of ignoring abuses in Kashmir.
"Why do we not question how the government's actions have led him to join militancy? If the government would not brutalise people and instead allow political space for protest, I'm sure that the reason for militancy would decline," he said. "The low election turnout was a message, loud and clear: 'We want the resolution of Kashmir and an end to human rights violations'."
Signs of a humanitarian impact
Parvez blames Indian authorities for ignoring the will of ordinary Kashmiris for self-determination, and the international community for what he sees as a conspicuous silence.
Under Modi's first term in office, the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has been accused of stoking anti-Muslim sentiment across the country, which has seen a spike in hate crimes. In March, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned India of increasing reports of harassment and targeting of Muslims.
The constant tension between the army and the civilian population appears to be leaving a lasting humanitarian impact. A May 2016 survey by Medecins Sans Frontières found that 45 percent of the population in the Kashmir valley were under "significant mental distress" and nearly one in five Kashmiris showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Strikes, protests, and resulting curfews have also shut down schools for long stretches, while clashes have interrupted jobs and livelihoods.
A JKCCS report, released last month, documented decades of allegations against Indian forces in Kashmir including "water-boarding, sleep deprivation and sexualised torture", which the rights groups said are used as an "instrument of control" to quash dissent.
Despite the potency of the conflict, it took until 2018 for the first UN report into the human rights situation in Kashmir to be published. As well as decrying violence committed by authorities in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and armed groups on both sides, Indian forces came in for the most scrutiny. Detailing hundreds of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and sexual violence, the report highlighted the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which gives Indian forces operating in Kashmir immunity from the gravest of crimes.
"In the nearly 28 years that the law has been in force in Jammu and Kashmir, there has not been a single prosecution of armed forces personnel granted by the central government," the report stated.
India has called the UN report "fallacious" and "tendentious". In its election manifesto, Modi's BJP defended government policy: "In the last five years, we have made all necessary efforts to ensure peace in Jammu and Kashmir through decisive actions and a firm policy."
For Kashmiris who have seen their family members die, however, such broad statements ring hollow.
Abdul Qayoom Bhat, who says his son was beaten and killed by police officers at a protest, has been pushing for an official investigation for the last eight years.
Abdul Qayoom Bhat, a security guard from Srinagar's northern district of Soura, claims that his son Umar was repeatedly slammed into a concrete pipe by police officers at a protest in August 2010. The boy died days later in hospital. Bhat said it took him eight years to obtain an incident report for his son's death. His case against the police is one of the few abuse allegations in Kashmir making its way through a court-mandated investigations process.
At a shack next to the shimmering waters of Srinagar's Lake Dal, where hawkers offer tourist accommodation on ornately carved wooden houseboats, Bhat angrily recounted his son's death. He said he hoped others won't take part in protests: "It's not worth the risk."
But he also understands why young Kashmiris are taking to the street.
"Boys, when they see their brothers or fathers in their neighbourhood being killed or tortured, it is that repression that forces them to pick up stones or guns or to hit the street with a hope to stop it."

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Fujifilm's slogan for this year's Photokina is "Photography. Unlimited." — a slogan that encapsulates Fujifilm's ability to offer a diverse array of exciting products and services made possible by the company's proprietary, leading-edge and innovative technologies. The slogan also reflects the unlimited potential of photography to provide such value-added benefits as convenience, diversity and fun, and the ability of photos to enhance people's lives.
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The newly introduced instax mini 8 is slightly smaller and slimmer version of the instax mini 7S, though it maintains the simple design concept of its predecessor. In addition, the viewfinder has been improved for enhanced subject viewing. There is also a new high-key mode that enables users to take brighter photos.
With the key phrase "Photographic Artwork with the X-series," this corner exhibits photographic works that reveal the worlds of four leading international photographers active in the artistic and advertising fields. This exhibition brings together four photographers — each a prominent player in his own particular genre — under a common theme, and provides visitors with an unprecedented opportunity to experience the very latest, cutting-edge photographic expressions. After its debut at Photokina, this exhibition is scheduled to go on display at major cities in Europe, the United States and Asia.
Born in 1947
Lives in New York state
Stephen Shore began photographing at age eight, and at fourteen sold three prints to Edward Steichen (then director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). Shore left a Manhattan prep school during twelfth grade, and spent 1965 through 1969 documenting Andy Warhol's factory. In 1971 the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Shore's work in the institution's first-ever single artist show by a living photographer. In 1976 the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited his color work. Shore is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1975), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1974 and 1979) and Aperture Award (2005). The George Eastman House mounted his first retrospective, Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973-1993, in 1996. His work is included in such collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Shore resumed photographing in black-and-white in 1991, and more recently has begun shooting with a digital camera and printing small iphoto books. Throughout his numerous books and exhibitions, Shore has referenced popular photography, and he has been highly influential in introducing snapshot photography to galleries and museums.
Born in 1939
Lives in Memphis, TN
William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium. He is regarded as a pioneer among contemporary photographers in the exploration of the artistic potential of color photography. He took his first black-and-white photographs at age 18 and soon became serious about photography, though he never studied it formally. His first color work was shot in 1964 in color negative film, but in the late 60s he began to use color transparency films. His 1976 one man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York is credited with making color photography a legitimate artistic medium. Over the course of his career, he has been the subject of dozens of books, exhibitions in museums and documentary films. He also has been working on commissioned projects from artists, cooperates and museums such as David Byrne, Coca-Cola and Cartier Foundation of Photograph. The recipient of the 1998 Hasselblad Foundation International Award and his works have been part of permanent collection of various museums such as J, Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of American Art, Washington DC; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Born in 1957
Lives in New York and Paris
Nan Goldin is one of the most influential female photographers working today, and in 2002 The New York Times described her pictures "as influential as any in the last twenty years" for their influence on fashion and fine art.
As a teenager in Boston in the 1960s, then in New York starting in the 1970s, Nan Goldin has taken intensely personal, spontaneous, sexual, and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. In 1979 she presented her first slideshow in a New York nightclub, and her richly colored, snap-shotlike photographs were soon heralded as a groundbreaking contribution to fine art photography. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency — the name she gave her ever-evolving show — eventually grew into a forty-five-minute multimedia presentation of more than 900 photographs, accompanied by a musical soundtrack. Her work has been the subject of two major touring retrospectives: one organized in 1996 by the Whitney Museum of American Art and another, in 2001, by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Recent exhibitions include the slide and video presentation Sisters, Saints & Sybils at La Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, and her contributions to the 40th Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2009. Goldin was admitted to the French Legion of Honor in 2006 and received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2007. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was most recently presented live in Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, in 2008, and the slideshow was installed in the exhibition Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 2008 to March 2009. Her Scopophilia exhibition is currently part of Patrice Chéreau's special program at the Louvre. Goldin lives and works in Paris and New York.
Born in 1977
Lives in New York, NY.
New Jersey native Ryan McGinley began documenting his friends and Lower East Side subculture in New York City when he was a teenager. The fine art community took notice of his work when he printed a fifty-page, inkjet book entitled The Kids Are Alright in 1999. His large-format color photographs soon graced the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he was the youngest person ever, at the age of 25, to be given a solo exhibition. McGinley's work has since appeared in prestigious publications such as the New York Times Magazine, W, French Vofue and Interview allowing him to broaden his subject-matter to include Olympic athletes, artists and other visionaries in their familiar settings. An exhibition at P.S.1/MoMA established him as one of America's preeminent young photographers. His subsequent photographic series, have run from large scale road trip productions, caves and intimate studio portraits. All of this is a testament to his ever-evolving aesthetic and maturity as an artist. His works are part of permanent collection of Guggenheim Museum (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), and Whitney Museum of Modern Art (New York). He has shot advertising campaigns for clients such as Missoni, Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Microsoft, Levis, Pringle and L'Oreal. A career retrospective, Ryan McGinley, will be published by Rizzoli International this summer.
On a specially erected stage in the Fujifilm booth, a series of discussions available for the public to attend will take place on Fujifilm's X-series of digital cameras. Participants include several globally-renowned photographers active in the fields of documentary, commercial and fashion photography, and the star guest is Gueorgui Pinkhassov, a member of the world-famous Magnum Photos cooperative. Each guest speaker will introduce a number of photographic works taken with X-series cameras, and relate his/her own personal impressions of the cameras. In addition, various photographers will hold workshops on the benefits of the premium interchangeable lens cameras, the X-Pro1 and the X-E1.
*Please note timetable is subject to change without notice.
Pinkhassov's interest in photography began while he was still at school. After studying cinematography at the VGIK (the Moscow Institute of Cinematography), he went on to work at the Mosfilm studio and then as a set photographer.
In 1978 Pinkhassov joined the Moscow Union of Graphic Arts and obtained the status of an independent artist. His work was noticed by the prominent Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited Pinkhassov to the set to make a reportage about his film 'Stalker'(1979).
Pinkhassov moved permanently to Paris in 1985. He joined Magnum Photos in 1988. He works regulary for the international press, particularly for Geo, Actuel and the New York Times Magazine. His book, Sightwalk, explores individual details, through reflections or particular kinds of light, often approaching abstraction.
Born in Belgrade ( ex-Yugoslavia ) on August 15th, 1972
At the age of 18 the photography became my passion and I decided to pursue when I was 22.
I studied photography for 3 years in Brussels ( Belgium ) at INRACI. Now I work and live mainly in Paris.
I describe my work as, "the constant need to move and evolve!" It is a continuous search for something that is "in the air" and that reflects on the world around you.
These are some of the characteristics of the fashion world that reflects also on all the aspects of the contemporary world through the art, music, architecture, design and photography!
The idealization of beauty and perfection could briefly characterize my world of esthetics. I don't try to represent the reality but I try to filter it and through the imaginary worlds express various sides of elegance, chic and glitter.
For me the most important thing about my work is not to think of it as singular since it is a product of teamwork!
I am very attached to my team and I consider their work equally important as mine!
"Team" for me means being surrounded by people that you appreciate both professionally and humanly!
Serenity is the key word.
My name is Zack Arias and I am an editorial and commercial photographer based in Atlanta, GA.
While I've been working in the music industry for the past seven years I'm now branching into more editorial work and advertising.
You can boil it down to, "I photograph people in studio and on location."
My style and approach is simple, straightforward, bold, classic, true, and straight from camera.
My greatest talents are the ability to mix with any class of people and to get nervous subjects to relax in front of my camera.
I can handle any technical difficulty you can throw at me.
I once heard that a photographer's job description is "problem solver".
I would have to agree with that.
Ken Miller is a curator and editor who advises commercial and private clients.
In 2012, Ken has curated global photography exhibitions for FUJIFILM's X-series cameras. In 2011, he curated fashion week content for Milk Studios, with support from Leica cameras and Vimeo.com. In 2010, Ken curated a 'UT' shirt series featuring black and white photography for the apparel brand Uniqlo. In 2009, he was consulting curator for an auction of young artists by the Phillips de Pury auction house. In 2008, he curated a series of fashion week conversations for MINI Cooper cars. In 2007, he curated art, fashion and technology conversations for Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Enterprises.
Ken previously declined attending the London School of Economics to instead become Editor in Chief of Tokion magazine. Tokion quickly became a leading design, arts, and style magazine, with international editions in English and Japanese. In 2003, Tokion founded Creativity Now, an annual arts and media conference in New York and Tokyo that won Ad Age's Vanguard Award. In 2007, Abrams Image published Revisionaries, A Decade of Art in Tokion, described by Teen Vogue as "a powerful distillation of contemporary culture."
In 2009, Ken was author of SHOOT, a photography compilation for Rizzoli; SHOOT was supported with events and exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, Tate Modern in London, Colette in Paris, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and PARCO in Tokyo, among many others. In 2012, Ken is co-editor of Opening Ceremony, a fashion monograph from Rizzoli International. He is creative director at large for digital and production agency ALLDAYEVERYDAY, working with clients such as Standard Hotels, Land Rover, Aldo and Club Monaco.


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Investors have taken a trillion dollars in assets out of money market funds since the Lehman crisis in 2008 and now Putnam Investments is looking to create a new home for these discouraged investors seeking safety but balking at low yields.
The Boston-based mutual fund giant on Thursday announced the launch of a fund meant to offer higher current income than money market funds but with less volatility than even the shortest duration bond funds.
In an interview with AdvisorOne, Putnam Investments' head of global product and marketing Jeff Carney estimated there was as much as $11 trillion in investable assets–including $2 trillion in money market funds – sitting on the sidelines these days. With money market yields at historic lows – the average seven-day yield is currently 0.02% – many savers are using their resources to pay down debt and others, Carney says, are venturing into riskier assets.
Indeed, while money market funds have experienced a negative growth rate of 6.5% per year over the past three years, ultra-short bond funds have seen annual growth of 36% per year over that same length of time. As the shortest duration and least volatile asset class beyond the buck-a-share stability of money market funds, ultra-short bond funds would be a natural choice for nervous investors whipsawed by the markets' high volatility.
But in introducing the Putnam Short Duration Income Fund (Class A: PSDTX), Carney and his colleague Michael Salm, co-head of fixed income, sensed an opportunity for a different kind of product that would offer investors something close to the safety and liquidity of money market funds but with return characteristics more typical of ultra-short bond funds. "We're giving up yield here for better liquidity management and reduced volatility," says Carney about the bond fund, which like the typical money market fund offers investors a checkbook to redeem shares.
Says Salm, the lead manager of the fund: "We're aiming to provide an option for people … Just by straying from the boundaries [of money market fund liquidity requirements] you can pick up yield. For that extra yield, [investors] will have to absorb some NAV volatility," but the Putnam team plans to significantly reduce that volatility.
Salm says the average volatility of an ultra-short bond fund is more than three times greater that of a money market fund. He expects to achieve less than double the volatility of a money market fund and have less than half the volatility of the average ultra-short fund.
Salm readily admits that while bond managers in the ultra-short space compete to offer the highest yields, his team is not going to play that game. "We sit between the money fund world and this ultra-short world. We realize we'll be placed [by data services like Lipper and Morningstar] in the ultra-short world. We're not trying to have the highest yields among ultra-short funds, but higher than money market funds."
To achieve this balance, the fund will invest in traditional money market securities like certificates of deposit, commercial paper, time deposits, repurchase agreements and U.S. government bonds. But the fund will also invest in the asset-backed securities, investment-grade corporate bonds and sovereign debt that are more typical of short-term bond funds. Salm expects money market-type securities holdings to range between 30% and 70% of holdings, saying the flexibility is "really about avoiding volatility storms."
He adds that triple-A-rated securities will be "dominant" among money-market-type holdings. In the ultra-short bond category of portfolio holdings, he says U.S. corporate bonds and asset-backed securities will predominate.
Putnam expects its new fund to yield some 40 to 70 basis points above T-bills; its expense ratio is 0.40% for single-A shares and 0.30% for Y shares.
And how would PSDTX perform in the event of another Lehman-like crisis–the event that triggered our current low-rate, high-volatility environment that has sent so many investors to the sidelines? "We expect to underperform because non-Treasury assets will underperform," says Salm. "But relative to ultra-short, we expect to do much better. We aim to provide as much preservation of capital as possible in a floating-NAV world."


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Dev.Twitter.com Introduced Today for 750,000+ Twitter Developers
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WOBURN, MA–(Marketwire – Jul 11, 2011) – Acquia, the leading provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, announced today that Twitter selected a Drupal-based community solution for its new Twitterdeveloperwebsite at dev.twitter.com. The site, which was developed with support and guidance from Acquia, launched today.
The site provides information, tools, assistance, and support for the 750,000 developers across the Twitter ecosystem. It includes access to documents, APIs, tips, tutorials, a blog, and forums designed to connect developers to the Twitter team and each other.
"We are proud to be working with Twitter on this important effort," said Tom Erickson, Acquia's CEO. "It demonstrates Acquia's ability to deliver enterprise-scale applications, and reinforces that Drupal is truly a best-of-breed platform for community websites."
"Twitter has always been deeply supportive of open source efforts like Drupal," said Ryan Sarver, Twitter's Director of Platform. "We made the decision to go with Acquia and Drupal for our new dev.twitter.com site because of the customization and flexibility."
Today Twitter announced that more than one million registered applications have been created using the Twitter API, resulting in an ecosystem that has seen over $1 billion in acquisitions and more than $475 million in venture capital investment since December 2010.
Other customers that Acquia has helped launch social business communities include the World Economic Forum, Daimler/Mercedes-Benz, and Red Hat. Learn more at acquia.com.
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Recently, some news items that are currently making the round of various media have caught my interest: have you heard of Pink Slime?
Basically, it's gunk added to beef as a filler, legally doesn't need to be noted on the label, and is scraps leftover from fatty beef, and cartilage and other scraps that ordinarily would go into pet food, that is then minced finely until it resembles pink goo, then it's treated to a lovely bath in ammonia to kill all the bacteria it's full of.
Then, thanks to the miracle of food science, it's added into the beef that is served to children in schools, and added into what you buy in the supermarket.
A USDA scientist, in an internal email that was never meant to be seen by the public, coined the term "Pink Slime" and in a recent interview, admitted that he wouldn't feed it to his own family!
After being featured in it's own episode on celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's show Food Revolution, fastfood chain McDonalds has announced that it will no longer put that garbage into the hamburgers it serves to unsuspecting customers.
A number of big-name supermarket chains in the US, such as Safeway, have also announced that they will no longer sell that garbage to their customers either.
And now schools themselves have the choice as to whether they will accept that crap for our childrens' school lunch programs.
In a pitiful and heavy-handed attempt at emotional blackmail, the Pink Slime industry has announced that they have had to close 2 of their slime factories, and that if the new propaganda campaign they plan to launch in social media fails to re-brainwash the American Public that somehow this swill is fine for their kids' consumption, that they will have to lay off workers.
Like it's somehow our fault that they chose to manufacture a product that is both dishonest and unhealthy.
Oh, but it's "beef", they say! I say check out Jamie Oliver's website StopPinkSlime.org to learn more about it and see what YOU think it should be called!
And would YOU dip your food in ammonia before serving it to YOUR kids? I think if someone actually did that, social services would be on them so fast, for abusive parenting!!
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S01:E26 - Babee's First Christmas, the Night Before Christmas, Buzzbee and The Snowbee
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Buzzbee is looking forward to Christmas, but everyone seems to be making a fuss about Babee. It seems like everyone has forgotten about him...Or have they?! Buzzbee gets a taste of festive magic when Pappa Christmas comes to visit! Buzzbee is sad that Christmas is nearly over, but a surprise at Ant Hill stores cheers him up no end!
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S01:E01 - Postman Buzzbee/a Royal Visit/babee's Room
When Postman Spider takes a tumble, Buzzbee helps out with the deliveries and is delighted to receive lots of letters thanking him for his hard work. After all, one good turn deserves another!
S01:E02 - Buzzbee the Magician/scaredy Bee/buzzbee to The Rescue
Buzzbee learns how to do a new magic trick, but when Rubee disappears, he starts to wonder if the magic has gone one step too far!/Buzzbee and Barnabee are camping in the meadow when they get scared by a mysterious noise.
S01:E03 - Computer Bee/sporty Bee/birthday Bee
Buzzbee tries to help Mamma Bee with her shopping by emailing through her order. However, he doesn't really know how to use a computer and ends up ordering 4 million eggs instead of 4!
S01:E04 - Buzzbee's Teddy Bee/buzzbee's Garden/have You Heard?
Jasper teases Buzzbee for still having a Teddy Bee that he sleeps with every night. But then Rubee discovers Jasper has a blankie too!/Katypillar gives Buzzbee some seeds and he's very impatient to see them grow.
S01:E05 - Buzzbee's Lullaby/loyal Bee/a Windy Day!
Buzzbee discovers that it's OK to be noisy - as long as it's a noise that everyone likes!/Rubee is embarrassed when all her class mates laugh at her for continuing to play the recorder after everyone else has stopped during rehearsals for school concert. Buzzbee decides to make amends and manages to make sure that Rubee is the rightful star of the show!
S01:E06 - Imaginary Bee/bee In Charge/a Bee's Best Friend
When Buzzbee ignores Barnabee by mistake, he doesn't realise that he's upset his friend. But soon the shoe is on the other foot when Barnabee introduces his new imaginary friend, Robee!
S01:E07 - Healthy Bee/buzzbee Cleans Up/sleepy Bee
Buzzbee learns that you need to try something before deciding you don't like it!/Buzzbee and Barnabee decide to tidy up The Hive. No more litter bugs allowed!/Buzzbee and Jasper learn the importance of a good night's sleep.
S01:E08 - Jump Goes to School/scooter Bee/a Droopy Antenna
Buzzbee takes Jump to school to show everyone how to look after a pet. But Jump is very excitable and is a lot more jumpy than expected!/Buzzbee learns that you can't always be good at everything!
S01:E09 - Dancing Bee/buzzbee Helps Out/being Mamma Bee
Buzzbee learns to find his own rhythm and dance to his own beat!/Buzzbee and Jasper are asked to look after Anthill Stores, but they land themselves in trouble by eating all the pollen stoppers!
S01:E10 - Useful Bee/babee's First Word/buzzbee's Babysitter
Buzzbee discovers that sometimes you can be useful when others are least expecting it!/Buzzbee and Rubee are convinced that they're going to get Babee to talk. But as Mamma Bee points out, everyone does things in their own time!
S01:E11 - Teddy Bee Lost/musical Bees/bee on Time
Jump comes to the rescue when Buzzbee's Teddy Bee goes missing./When Grandpa gives his old xylophone to Buzzbee and Rubee, they have to learn to play together.
S01:E12 - Giggly Bee/how to Be Friends/buzzbee Digs for Treasure
Debee has the giggles, but she's supposed to be reading a poem with Rubee for the Queen! Luckily, she manages to contain her laughter in the nick of time and it turns out that the Queen is a bit of a giggly bee herself!
S01:E13 - Brave Bee/buzzbee's Mystery Photo/buzzbee Makes a Swap
Buzzbee overcomes his fear of the unknown and gets a nice surprise when the medical check-up at school is much better than he was expecting!/When Buzzbee discovers an old photograph at school, he's determined to discover who is in the picture and finds the answer very close to home!
S01:E14 - The Other Buzzbee, Buzzbee's Big Film, Buzzbee's Den
When Buzzbee finds himself torn between two commitments, he learns that honesty is the best policy!, Buzzbee turns film-maker for the day when he decides to direct his very own documentary!, Buzzbee discovers that being tidy is much less trouble than bein
S01:E15 - Once Upon a Buzzbee, Bees In Space, Don't Be Greedy
A bedtime story captures the imagination of all the residents in The Hive and everyone's left asking 'who is knocking at Pirate Bumble's door'?!, Buzzbee creates confusion between his friends when he accidentally invites both of them to see the new Space
S01:E16 - Organised Bee, It's Not Easy Being Green, Mother's Day
Buzzbee and Barnabee learn that sometimes it helps to be organised!, When Katypillar mysteriously develops bright green feet, Buzzbee discovers that paint and grass don't mix!, Buzzbee is determined to make sure that Mamma Bee has the best Mother's Day ev
S01:E17 - Funny Bee, Pappa Gets Fit, Buzzbee Buzzes Off
Lord Bartlebee learns how to have fun with a little help from some of the younger residents of The Hive. When Pappa tries to get fit, he discovers that doing a good deed can be just as good as a strict exercise programme! Buzzbee and Rubee learn to apprec
S01:E18 - Silly Bee, Show and Tell Bee, Winning Isn't Everything
Jasper is playing pranks again, but learns that it's important to realise when a joke has gone too far. It's Show and Tell Day and Buzzbee can't think of anything interesting to take to school - until a bedtime story from Grandpa gives him an idea! When B
S01:E19 - Treasure Hunt, Squeaky Bee, Buzzbee's Secrets
Buzzbee learns the value of teamwork when Miss Ladybird organises a surprise treasure trail for the class. Jump has a new squeaky toy bone and Buzzbee and Jasper are intent on causing mischief! Buzzbee learns that sometimes it's important to keep a secret, no matter how hard it might be!
S01:E20 - Lord Bartlebee and the Teddy Bee, Miss Ladybird's Day Off, Rainy Day Fun
When Teddy Bee goes missing, it quickly becomes clear that there's been a bit of a mix-up at the school fair! Buzzbee and his classmates are in for a surprise when Miss Ladybird goes away for the day! Buzzbee and Barnabee discover that it's always best to own up to your mistakes.
S01:E21 - Do the Sticky Stomp!, Collector Bee, Polite Bee
Vince can't decide on a present for Millice for their wedding anniversary, until he uncovers a favourite old record - The Sticky Honey Stomp! Buzzbee wants to impress everyone with a collection - all he needs to do is find something to collect! Buzzbee is the perfect pupil when Lord Bartlebee teaches him how to be polite!
S01:E22 - Raindance, Buzzbee's Holiday, Spring Bee
The residents of The Hive come together to try and make it rain. But will their raindance work? The Bee family are going to the seaside but they can't fit everyone in the car. Luckily, Buzzbee has a solution! Spring has sprung on Honey Farm, but will Katypillar's plant make a recovery in time for the party?
S01:E23 - Jasper's Monster, Festival of Light, Lord Bartlebee and the Thunderstorm
Jasper frightens his friends with a story about a monster, but it's not long before they get their own back! It's a great honour to turn the lights on for the Harvest Festival of lights, but who is the Queen going to choose for this important task? Lord Bartlebee Buzz shows Buzzbee and friends the perfect way to overcome their fears!
S01:E24 - Peek-a-bee, Buzzbee's New Ball, Lonely Bee
Buzzbee finds a way to help Mr Millipede overcome his nerves and put on a dazzling dance display for the Queen! Buzzbee and Jasper learn that with the right care and attention, an old toy can be as good as new! Barnabee is feeling left out when he thinks that his friends have organised a picnic without inviting him. But all is not as it seems!
S01:E25 - Buzzbee's Goodbye, Babee's Busy Day, Grandma Bee Learns to Drive
Buzzbee learns that sometimes change can be a good thing. Buzzbee and Jasper try to blame their mischievous antics on Babee and end up learning a valuable lesson about telling the truth! Buzzbee teaches Grandma that if you think you can do something, you can!
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Buzzbee is looking forward to Christmas, but everyone seems to be making a fuss about Babee. It seems like everyone has forgotten about him...Or have they?! Buzzbee gets a taste of festive magic when Pappa Christmas comes to visit! Buzzbee is sad that Christmas is nearly over, but a surprise at Ant Hill stores cheers him up no end!
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I started to work on a portrait of (former) Dr Who girl, Jenna Coleman.
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Y SIN EMBARGO magazine #28, me/END/you (new!, free, independent)
Concerned with being constantly updated, with obtaining the latest model of who knows what, with wearing the badge of the modern, informed, up-to-date consumer.
Undermined by ubiquitous messages that insist in reminding us that there's always something better, that what we have is nor will never be enough, is bound to be old, of the last season or, which is the same but not, of centuries ago, which in consumption is equal to an era.
What if we decide not to be?
What if we decide not to run in pursuit of a future made into a gadget, a SUV or a trendy shirt?
It's then that we realise we're forced. That was seemed an option is nothing but a way to mask the fact that the objects themselves force us to discard them.
-They have a voice of their own and take command.
The operating system is no longer compatible with the software we need to install, the laptop does not have the required input for the new peripheral, the Ikea table didn't resist the move, the soles of the shoes we bought last spring have come apart.
All of this thoroughly programmed to support a system that in turn supports us. To keep a job, to support the job of those who support ours, to not break a cycle of purchase-disposal-purchase beyond which we panic just to look.
And while we once again prepare to update, we fill up the trash bin with wasted resources. We dispose of the work of others: work designed to be thrown away. Objects with a programmed expiration date, which serve their only function without errors or delays: to make sure we remember to make our next purchase.
Is this the only way to keep the cycle?
How long will resources be able to support a race without (a) finishing line(s)?
Will we wait until then to imagine alternatives?
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Men over 50 - not young people - are the biggest drinkers in New Zealand, researchers have found.
But experts say that although the male 50-plus age group may be consuming more alcohol, it's the younger generations who are drinking it more dangerously.
Of the 113,345,000 glasses of alcohol consumed in New Zealand between February last year and January this year, 28 per cent were drunk by men older than 50, said research released by the Roy Morgan market research company yesterday.
The group which accounted for the smallest section of the alcohol market was women aged between 25 and 34 (8.3 per cent).
And men between 18 and 24 drank only 8.3 per cent of all the alcohol drunk in New Zealand last year, despite being recognised by the Ministry of Health as one of the groups most likely to engage in dangerous drinking behaviour.
Researchers asked almost 11,500 New Zealanders over 18 how many glasses and what types of alcohol they'd drunk in the past four weeks.
Alcohol Healthwatch director Rebecca Williams said it was likely that men over 50 were found to be the biggest drinkers because they were the largest age group in the survey.
"Males definitely are up there with their drinking, but among that age group there's probably a bigger proportion of people having two or three drinks which would also help account for the significant volume," Ms Williams said.
People over 50, including women, were often used to having a drink or two when they got home or with dinner. These tended to be beer or wine.
But younger people tended not to drink during the week and "saved it up" for the weekend when they would go out and binge, Ms Williams said.
That was why anti-alcohol harm campaigns were aimed at them.
"Young men are dying at far higher rates from alcohol-related causes."
And what young people were drinking was often much more dangerous as well, she said.
"RTDs are aimed at young people and they're sort of a gateway to get young people drinking spirits. So when they make drinks, they make them much stronger ... that's a concern."
The Health Promotion Agency's general manager of research, policy and advice, Dr Andrew Hearn, said the research was about alcohol market segmentation, and not about the amount and frequency of drinking or about alcohol issues arising from drinking.
Dr Hearn also reiterated Ms William's point that the 50-plus male group was one of the largest segments of the total population.
Men aged between 50 and 89 make up 14 per cent of the population, according to Statistics New Zealand.
He said most men in that group (66 per cent) preferred beer, which varied in the amount of alcohol it contained.
"The survey also does not show that 50-plus year old males are the biggest drinkers or suffering the most harm," Dr Hearn said.
"Alcohol issues exist in all population groups."
He cited the Ministry of Health 2007/08 survey which found that 18-to-24-year-old males consumed large amounts of alcohol at least weekly and were more likely to have a potentially hazardous drinking pattern than any other age group.
A minimum price policy for alcohol may have been sunk even before the Government finishes research on whether it works.
The Ministry of Justice is investigating minimum pricing, but Prime Minister John Key and Justice Minister Judith Collins have both said they are not convinced the system would be effective.
This has angered alcohol watchdogs and public health officials, who said the Government was ignoring a wealth of evidence which showed price hikes curtailed harmful drinking.
Labour MP Charles Chauvel and Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell have drafted amendments to alcohol reform legislation, proposing a "floor price" for alcohol which would raise retail prices while reducing binge drinking.
The Act Party called for minimum pricing to be scrapped, which left United Future's Peter Dunne holding the balance of power.
Mr Dunne tweeted yesterday: "If Labour's minimum alcohol price amendment depends on my vote, it is doomed."
The Opposition wants the Government to change the legislation to allow for the introduction of new alcohol pricing when the ministry reports back in September.
Mrs Collins said: "I don't think most New Zealanders should have to pay more for their beer and wine because of other people's over-consumption.
"Price is certainly a determinant but you need to realise there's lot of different sources for alcohol.
"If you push people away from wine you might be forcing them into spirits," she said.
A major study on alcohol policy in the high-profile medical journal the Lancet said: "Price increases and a set minimum price are both estimated to have a much greater effect on heavier than on lighter drinkers, with modest or only small extra financial cost to lighter drinkers."
- Isaac Davison
Gary McComick enjoys more than the odd tipple
As an enjoyer of more than the odd tipple and at 60-years-old, entertainer Gary McCormick admits he probably enjoyed more than his fair share of the alcohol consumed last year.
The radio host and writer says he has at least one bottle of wine a day which he starts from 11am.
"I do enjoy a drink every day, more than that in fact, which is probably more than the strict guidelines that well-meaning people lay down," he said.
McCormick more than falls into the group of men aged 50 and over who collectively drank 28 per cent of all the glasses of alcohol consumed in New Zealand last year.
But while he freely admits he drinks more than what's recommended, the bottle of wine is drunk over a day, he knows his limits and has the same amount seven days a week no matter if it's the weekend or not.
"Consistency is a great thing - the same thing each and every day."
McCormick's tipple of choice is wine, though it hasn't always been. When he first started getting into drinking in his early twenties, he was a big beer fan.
"It was probably whiskey and Steinlager and often the two together which was called a 'boiler maker' ... it was powerful but inspired thoughtful thinking. A lot of writing was done on boiler makers. We used to sit around scribbling poems and writing things to myself."
It wasn't until he started touring around wineries with performing local bands that he discovered the wonder of the grape.
And now he has even married into winery - his wife is the daughter of wine-maker Peter Cottier who owns Cottier Estate in the Wairapapa.
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KANSAS CITY (AP) -- Brady Quinn is getting another shot on the Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback merry-go-round.
Coach Romeo Crennel announced Wednesday that Quinn will start Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos, regaining the job he lost when he sustained a concussion against Oakland.
Quinn was cleared to play last week against Cincinnati and came on in the second half for the ineffective Matt Cassel, who was the starter early in the season before sustaining his own concussion.
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Scouting, Volume 2, Number 23, April 1, 1915
Description: Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide. This issue includes the annual report of the Boy Scouts of America, as submitted at the annual meeting.
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"I feel cranky if a day goes by and I don't draw something," he said.
It's a creative passion and it was the only thing he loved since he was a child. Growing up in Australia, while his friends contemplated what they would do with their lives, he knew he was going to be an artist.
After bouncing about the world, Hancock is now residing in Brooklyn's Carrol Gardens. He works as an illustrator in the old Farber pencil factory in Greenpoint, where he shares the space with fellow artists as he works on drawing buildings and other objects.
Hancock loves buildings so much he has created a project for himself to draw all the buildings in New York City. His blog, allthebuildingsinnewyork.blogspot.com, is dedicated to this venture. It's the stories of the buildings in this city that keeps him intrigued.
"The density is what makes cities interesting, especially in New York," he said. "When you cross over a bridge and see the vista of buildings and when you can see the details of them, it's good."
Inside a building there is always a story that he could imagine or find out that intrigues him even more about New York.
His blog project has led him to one art class in P.S. 188, where the children were drawing their buildings for an assignment. For him, it was fascinating.
He wrote on his blog after, that it "was great to see how they draw so freely, and hear all the stories about how they perceive their city, where they come from, and the histories of having grown up here."
His blog has also led him to an offer with a publisher to have a book published of his illustrations of buildings. But before that takes off, he is currently working on creating the city of Naples for a magazine in Europe. As an artist, Hancock doesn't mind being mainstream.
"I enjoy being commercial about my art," he said. "I like making it for other people so that they could enjoy and make a connection."


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Also, comments on how to crush the crystal malt would be helpful. It says a rolling pin or heavy bottle, I presume on a cutting board? Sanitization of the cutting board an issue? Another method I read about in one of my two books which said to crush up the malt in a plastic bag
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UPDATE: It's official: Paul Rudd is the lead in Edgar Wright's Marvel movie Ant-Man, according to The Wrap. But which version of the size-changing ant-themed superhero is he possibly going to play?
The Wrap says Rudd is in talks to play the role of Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, and THR backs up their claim. Rudd has been deflecting this question for weeks, but now apparently it's a done deal. He's still just in talks — but reading between the lines, it sounds as though he's got the part already. The other rumored Ant-Man candidate, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has just committed to star in (and maybe direct) Sandman.
If you didn't know, Ant-Man is a scientist who creates the ability to change his size (down to an Ant! etc.) as well as communicate with insects. While many are reporting that Rudd will be playing the inventor of this tech, Hank Pym, BadAssDigest is speculating that Rudd will be portraying the lesser known Scott Lang version, who takes over the Ant-Man mantle after Pym leaves it behind.
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|Syrian Protesters Slam U.S. Blacklisting of al-Nusra as Fighting Rocks Capital, North
|[An Nahar] Thousands of Syrians erupted into the streets on Friday, criticizing Washington for blacklisting the rebel jihadist group Al-Nusra Front, as regime troops bombed southern districts of Damascus
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and festivities were reported around two military schools in the north of the country.
The protesters demonstrated under the slogan: "There is no terrorism in Syria except that of Assad."
Protesters in the Eastern Ghouta region, just outside Damascus and which has come under regular air raids by the regime army, held up a sign reading: "Thank you to all the 'terrorists' in Syria who are fighting Assad."
"We are all Al-Nusra Front," it said, in reference to the jihadist group blacklisted by Washington on Tuesday.
Lines of children and men linked arms and carried the three-starred flag of the revolution as they called for downfall of the regime in the street as shopkeepers looked on.
U.S. blacklisting of Syria's hardline Islamist Al-Nusra Front as a "terrorist organization" has drawn fierce criticism from rebels, opposition groups and activists, who have condemned the move as both ill-timed and ill-conceived.
The broad view is that the Salafist group is fighting courageously against Assad, whose ouster its members consider a religious duty, and has done nothing to warrant censure.
Washington blacklisted al-Nusra, which has claimed the majority of suicide kabooms that have rocked the country in recent months, warning that hard boyz could play no role in building the nation's future.
Protesters, meanwhile, were also vocal on social media networks like the Facebook.
On the Syrian Revolution 2011 Facebook page, a retrospective of the most powerful scenes of the 22-month anti-Assad uprising were shown in a video footage -- from the original protests in Daraa to the massacre in the town of Houla in May.
"From the famous honor Friday we demonstrated in all cities and towns, to make the freedom dream a reality," read the subtitles, set against a dramatic musical score, and referring to the first protest in Daraa on March 18 last year.
"When Western countries feel threatened ... they try to minimize our great revolution and describe some revolutionaries as terrorists," the video said, professing "we will not allow anyone to interfere in our internal issues."
In the northwestern town of Kfar Nabal, demonstrators rejected exile for Assad, demanding that he be put on trial in Syria, where more than 43,000 people have died since the revolt erupted in March 2011, according to activists.
Syrian activists also had a revolutionary message for the citizens of Damascus allies Russia and China: "Intelligent peoples governed by idiots, remove your tyrants!" read a banner held aloft in Kfar Nabal as a line of children cheered.
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regime troops bombed southern districts of Damascus while rebels and soldiers battled around two military schools in the north of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Several blasts rang out in Damascus as southern areas of the city were bombarded," said the Britannia-based group.
Nine rebels and eight soldiers were killed in heavy festivities near the School of Administrative Affairs, a military academy between Aleppo
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city and the town of Saraqeb to the southwest.
"Classes were suspended there several months ago after rebels seized much of the surrounding area," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Just north of Aleppo, fighting broke out near another military academy, one of the largest in the country, said the watchdog, which relies on a countrywide network of activists and doctors in compiling its reports.
The cut-thoats, who have encircled the sprawling infantry school for three weeks, will nevertheless have to mobilize significant numbers of fighters to take on the 3,000 soldiers stationed there, Abdel Rahman said.
In the Tassil area of the southern province of Daraa, three non-combatants were killed and several maimed by artillery fire at dawn, the watchdog said.
Fighting also broke out in the northwestern province of Idlib around the military base at Wadi Daif, under siege by rebels since they seized the nearby town of Maaret al-Numan, which was hit by air raids on Friday.
The Observatory said at least 42 people -- 14 civilians, 20 rebels and eight soldiers -- had been killed nationwide on Friday.
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Review: Pro-Ject Hear It Two Headphones
A couple of days ago, we listened to the $129 Pro-Ject Hear It One, the larger of two new headphones from the budget turntable specialists. Now we'll listen to the Hear It Two, a $79 on-ear model that, frankly, looks more like something you'd buy at Target than something you'd buy at Needle Doctor.
Like its big brother, the Hear It Two is a generic-looking design. The earpieces swivel so that the headphone can be slipped into a slim briefcase. Unlike many on-ear models, the headband doesn't fold for easier packing.
So the design of the Hear It Two offers nothing to get excited about. To find out if there's something exciting about the sound, I called in our usual West Coast headphone listening panelists— L.A. voice actress Lauren Dragan and jazz musician Will Huff—as well my fellow Tech^2 blogger Geoff Morrison.
Because Pro-Ject touts the Hear It Two as especially well-suited for use with portable products, we used iOS and Android smartphones as our sources most of the time. For longer, more exploratory listening sessions I used the $39 HiFiMan HM-101 USB DAC/headphone amp, plugged into my laptop computer.
Judge me by my size, do you?
Compact on-ear headphones have been what you might call an acquired taste for our West Coast testing panel. I've definitely acquired the taste, but the rest of us are still coming along.
For me, listening to Mumtaz Mahal, a beautifully recorded CD from Water Lily Acoustics featuring blues singer/guitarist Taj Mahal with Indian musicians, was a revelatory experience. On "Rolling On the Sea," I heard a huge sense of ambience, loads of detail in the three stringed instruments (a guitar and two variations on the Indian veena), and Taj Mahal's voice imaged dead center, almost as if he were right behind me. This from a system costing a grand total of $118.
Guitarist Steve Khan's "Casa Loco" (from the CD of the same name) sounded even bigger, the Hear It Two capturing the colossalness of Khan's heavily chorused and reverbed Telecaster and Manolo Badrena's ambient vocals, bell tree, and unidentifiable weird percussion instruments. What surprised me most is that the Hear It Two gave me powerful, tight bass, delivering the full impact of Anthony Jackson's powerful bass line. The one flaw: Steve Jordan's insistent snare drum sounded a tad too bright, making the sound a bit fatiguing when I turned up the volume.
You probably think this tiny headphone performs heavy metal about as convincingly as Justin Bieber could—but you'd be wrong. Well, mostly wrong. The subterranean groove of "Slaves and Bulldozers" from Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger sounded ultra-deep and adequately nasty. I can't say it got my head bobbing, and I can't say I wouldn't have liked a little more bass, but the bass that was there sounded fantastic: tight, precise, powerful.
You'll have to listen hard to note the colorations in vocals with the Hear It Two—they're there, but they're rarely troublesome and usually unnoticeable. Maybe Dylan's midrange sounded just a bit overemphasized, James "Blood" Ulmer's baritone sounded a tad thin, and Laura Nyro and Michael Stipe sounded ever-so-slightly bright. But there was zero excess sibilance, zero "cupped hands" coloration, and zero bloating of male voices.
By now, you've gathered that I like this little headphone a lot. But I happen to favor the form factor of on-ear headphones; I love the lightness and easy portability, and don't generally mind the lack of bass.
So how did Will and Lauren feel? "At first I thought, 'Oh, these are cheap, Walkman-style on-ears,'" Will said, "but the sound quality wasn't what I expected. Even though they're not large, it's a big sound. The bass is well-controlled and the sound overall is nicely warm. But I hate the way on-ears feel!"
Lauren, though, heard no virtues in the Hear It Two. "I've never gotten this style of headphone," she complained. "You don't get any isolation." Point taken. But she didn't like the sound, either. "The mids are really heavy-handed and there's not enough bass."
To measure the Hear It Two's performance, I used a G.R.A.S.43AG ear/cheek simulator, a Clio FW audio analyzer, a laptop computer running TrueRTA software with an M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface, and a Musical Fidelity V-Can headphone amplifier. I experimented with various positions of the Hear It Two's earpads on the ear/cheek simulator and settled on the positions that gave the most representative results. As with most on-ear models, I had to use the 43AG's clamping mechanism to get an adequate seal on the ear/cheek simulator; this may have the effect of boosting the bass by a few dB in the measurements.
The Hear It Two's frequency response is unusual. There's not much bass, but there's there's more energy than usual in the 500 Hz to 1.5 kHz band. Most headphones have a response peak somewhere around 2 or 3 kHz; this one doesn't. However, it does have a lot more energy than usual in the 6 to 9 kHz range.
Impedance runs between 33 and 47 ohms, averaging about 34 ohms. Adding 70 ohms output impedance to the V-Can's 5-ohm output impedance to simulate the effects of using a typical low-quality headphone amp boosts the bass by about +2 dB below 100 Hz, which means the Hear It Two might actually have a more appealing tonal balance when used with a fairly high-impedance headphone amp, like the ones built into many smartphones and laptop computers.
Total harmonic distortion (THD) at 100 dBA is low above 300 Hz, but really high in the bass, ranging from 7% to 27% below 100 Hz. For a compact on-ear model, isolation is surprisingly OK from about 1.5 kHz to 10 kHz, but below 1 kHz there's practically no isolation.
Average sensitivity with a 1 mW signal at 32 ohms rated impedance is 104.4 dB from 300 Hz to 10 kHz, 105.0 dB from 300 Hz to 6 kHz.
Bottom Line
Expecting a compact on-ear like the Hear It Two to deliver powerful sound is like expecting Justin Bieber to do a great cover of a Zeppelin tune—it's just physically impossible. But if you're cool giving up some bass impact to get clear, ambient mids and highs in the bargain, the Hear It Two is an excellent choice, especially at its bargain price. And what other inexpensive headphone offers the cachet of an audiophile brand?
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We picked up our bibs on Saturday evening and they ran out of goodie bags so we got our shirt and number and left the expo. We had dinner at Lazy Dog, which was so, so good. We stopped at Sports Chalet where MK got some gu and I also got some Sport Beans because I figured later in the race I would like to have them. Then it was an early night with a pretty restless sleep. I woke up nervous again. As I said in my pre-race goals, I haven't run a marathon in over a year and a half and my last one took me close to six hours to finish because I was injured and didn't train well. I laid out all my clothes and was all set to go race morning.
We woke up around 5:30 to head to the starting line. I ate my peanut butter and jelly squares and then we drove to the area where we were suppose to park. It was easy with no traffic and we got close parking because it was such a small race. It was a great community vibe and feel at the start line, which I love. It was a beautiful day and I was so happy in my long sleeve and tights. I never regretted wearing them once and there is much less chafing when you wear long sleeves and pants!
We grabbed a quick photo together and then we were off! Right on time, much appreciated. Our splits really show where there was a incline and I was so happy with how consistent we ran. I made sure to not get too excited when we started and take off, and I was glad that I held myself back the first mile.
Now, onto the splits. The first 8 miles flew by. The course was pretty and had many beautiful fall accents, which I loved! There were not many spectators at all, but the ones you did see were awesome and all the water stations were great. Around mile 10 I started thinking, okay, I'm feeling good and I've got 16 to go. My legs felt okay and the course wasn't hilly or hard, it was a nice distraction and since I didn't look at a map before hand, the miles went by pretty quickly. When hit the half way point, I quick went to the bathroom, and was happy that my stomach was cooperating. That's why mile 13 was a bit slower. I ate my sandwiches at mile 4, 8, 12, and was cruising!
Mile 14 was where I put my head down and just ran. I somehow didn't realize I lost Mary Kate during this time, I thought she was right behind me! At mile 16 I had caffeinated sport beans. There was a section where you go out to a turn around to go back through neighborhoods and this is where I told myself, just make it to mile 20. It's six miles and then if the wheels come off, it's okay. So I ran hard to mile 20 and felt pretty good. I was passing so many people and I love that feeling of 'working' when I run. I just kept looking forward and moving toward the next person. I saw the 4:00 group in my sight and go so excited. I told myself just catch up to them. Just keep running toward them, they are running slower than you. I finally caught them right at mile 21 and then unfortunately, my stomach started to become upset. I think I pinpointed it to the sport beans at mile 16. Therefore I lost 5 more minutes at mile 21 and getting back into the groove after that hurt because I had stopped for quite some time. But, I knew I was still on target to go under 4:10 so I just focused on that. I was bunny hopping a few people and their encouraging words were awesome, Carlos especially! We talked about a friend he had running at Kona, and it was always great to see him on the out and backs and I got to see Mary Kate on them as well! {which in my opinion, there was one too many out and backs}
At mile 23 my feet really started hurting. Just being on your feet for this long hurts. I knew I had blisters and I was so scared to take my shoes off after the race! I could have run a little bit harder on mile 26, but I was just spent. I lost some of my nutrition at mile 21, and should have eaten my last sandwich at mile 24 but I didn't. Lesson learned… Sandwiches ONLY!
The one thing that was kind of a bummer is that the finish line is SO small that there really aren't many people there :( So you finish and it's a little anti-climatic, but I was still happy with my time and I couldn't believe how close I was to 4 hours! Minus a few little changes I'm going to make for my next race, my "strategy" worked out great for the starting pace and then 'racing' the second half made me much more confident. The entire last half I just told myself, you just started running, push yourself. I also told myself, you just started running, this is the beginning of your race, you can do this. I'd rather blow up at mile 20 going for a good time, then thinking I could have gone faster, which I am happy I ran this race the way I did. I'm pretty sure I negative split the entire race too, which I'm stoked on.
My feet were pretty jacked up afterwards :( but on the upside, they weren't bleeding! I had blisters on almost ALL my toes, but I'll spare you the photos. Now they are all healing up and I'm really looking forward to Tuscon now! This race boosted my confidence so much, and I'm so happy that I ran it! It was pretty, I felt good for the most part, minus the mishap at mile 21, and now I'm back!